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Ethics Complaint Filed Against Massachusetts Governor
No Agenda ^ | 3/7/2007 | Matt Margolis

Posted on 03/07/2007 11:07:27 AM PST by No Dog

In only three months since taking office as Governor of Massachusetts, Democrat Deval Patrick has come under fire for abusing a state police helicopter, upgrading the governor's car to a more expensive Cadillac, for giving his wife an unnecessary chief of staff at $72,000/year at the taxpayer's expense, and for using $27,000 in taxpayer dollars to outfit his office, including $12,300 for drapes.

Well, things have continued to get worse for the new governor, as the Massachusetts Republican Party has filed an ethics complaint against him for making a call to a top official at Citigroup (former US Treasury secretary Robert E. Rubin) on behalf of a top Ameriquest lawyer, his former employer and donor to his campaign in an apparent effort to influence a business transaction.

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TOPICS: Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: corruption; devalpatrick; massachusetts
Is anyone surprised?
1 posted on 03/07/2007 11:07:29 AM PST by No Dog
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To: No Dog

"Coupe" Deval just keeps on rollin'.


2 posted on 03/07/2007 11:17:52 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: No Dog

$12K for drapes?


3 posted on 03/07/2007 11:32:57 AM PST by elli1
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To: No Dog

What were the Democrats saying about a culture of corruption?


4 posted on 03/07/2007 1:33:41 PM PST by billybudd
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